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Education, Happiness and Wellbeing

verfasst von: Alex C. Michalos

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Answers to the questions ‘Does education influence happiness and if so, how and how much?’ depend on how one defines and operationalizes ‘education’, ‘influences’ and ‘happiness’. A great variety of research scenarios may be constructed from our three essential variables. What public policies one ought to adopt and implement regarding the influence of education on happiness depends minimally on which of the great variety of research scenarios one adopts and maximally on lots of other things as well. My personal preference is for a robust definition of the three terms. Because human beings are complex organisms, an adequate construction of the idea of human wellbeing must also be complex. Therefore, any discipline-driven, reductionist definition that pyschologizes, medicalizes, economizes, geneticizes, socializes or politicizes the idea should be avoided.

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Titel: Education, Happiness and Wellbeing
verfasst von: Alex C. Michalos
Publikationsdatum: 01.07.2008
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2008
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-007-9144-0

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